The European PVC industry has voluntarily pledged to recycle at least 900,000 tonnes of PVC into new products by 2025, the industry announced on Monday 10 September. This is the industry’s answer to a call from the European Commission for voluntary commitments from European industry to increase plastic recycling rates and help achieve the EU's plastics strategy, which was unveiled in January, in the framework of the social economy (see EUROPE 12059, 12058).
This commitment is the share that the PVC industry will provide of the Commission’s total objective of 1 million tonnes for the plastics industry by 2025.
The European PVC industry announces that it has also voluntarily pledged to recycle at least 1 million tonnes of PVC a year by 2030. These efforts will be done under the heading ‘VinylPlus,’ the name of the voluntary commitment subscribed to by the European PVC industry towards sustainable development in 2000 and setting a framework for the sustainable development of the sector in the EU, Norway and Switzerland. The entire PVC chain will be mobilised to this effect, explained VinylPlus director general Brigitte Dero.
The EU's plastics strategy, which combines voluntary and legislative instruments, aims at 100% of all plastics being recyclable or reusable by 2030 (see EUROPE 11940). For further information, see https://vinylplus.eu/recycling/voluntary-pledge (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)